The UK’s opposition Labour Party was branded “divisive” and “anti-India” by Indian diaspora groups after a party leaflet for a by-election in northern England used an image of PM Narendra Modi. The leaflet shows Modi in a handshake with Conservative Party PM Boris Johnson at the G7 Summit in 2019 with the message, “Don’t risk a Tory MP who is not on your side.”
Delhi Police have registered an FIR against Twitter for allegedly allowing access to child pornography on the platform. This comes after a parliamentary panel asked Twitter to explain why it blocked access of Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to their accounts last week.
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India’s drug regulator has permitted Mumbai-based Cipla to import Moderna’s Covid vaccine for restricted emergency use. Moderna’s vaccine will be the fourth Covid jab to be available in India after Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik. The health ministry says 57.68 lakh doses of vaccines were administered a day, on an average, in India.
